A study on determinants of yield of paddy cultivation in tamil nadu with special reference to madurai district

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Richard Paul. V and Radha Devi. S

This study examines the determinants of rice production in the district of Madurai in Tamil Nadu used primary data. The present study aims to analyse the paddy cultivation in different size-level farms and the constraint analysis applied. The constraint anlaysis is applied to find out the problems of the farmers in paddy cultivation. Stratified random sampling method was adopted for this present study. Pre scheduled interview questionnaire was prepared and circulated among the 110 sample respondents. Among the sample respondents 60 farmers came under the category of small farm size and 50 farmers came under the category of large farm size. The collected interview schedule enter in to the MS excel and converted to the SPSS software. It resulted that the overall paddy cultivation is viable one based on the statistical tools. The constraint analysis resulted that the problem is identified. The researcher suggested that the overall paddy cultivation is needed to improve stage.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2017.5249.0681
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